Washing-machine



(No Model.)

D. K. B-REAZBALE.

WASHING MAGHINE.

No. 388,114. Patented Aug. 21, 1888.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

DAVID KENNON BREAZEALE, OF RAYNE, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO XVILLIAM IV. DUSON, OF OROVVLEY, LOUISIANA.

WASHING-MACHINE.

$PECIPICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 388,114, dated August 21, 1888.

Application filed October-21, 1887. Serial No. 953,005. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, DAVID KENNON BREA- ZEALE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Rayne, in the parish of Acadia and State of Louisiana, have invented a new and useful Improvement in \Vashing-llIachines, of which the following is a specification.

My invention is an improved washing-machine pounder; and it consist in certain novel features hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, which fully illustrate my invention, Figure l is a side elevation of my improved pounder. Fig. 2 is a central vertical section of the same. Fig. 3 is a horizontal section on the line a :c of Fig. 2.

Referring to the drawings by letter, A designates the body of my pounder, which is circular in cross-section and flares slightly upward, as shown. A conical top, B, is secured upon the upper end of the body A, and is provided at its apex or center with a socket, C, for the reception of the lower end of the handle D. At or near its lower edge the body is provided with a series of perforations, E, which extend entirely around the body.

F designates a cylindrical shell or diaphragm which is arranged within the body and is secured in position by bolts G, passed through the lower edges of the shell and the body, as shown.

11 designates sleeves or tubes encircling the bolts G between the shell and the body, thereby holding the shell from the body.

In practice the clothes to be washed are rubbed with soap and then placed in asuitable receptacle or tub partially filled with water. The pounder is then alternately forced down on the clothes and raised therefrom in rapid succession, thus violently agitating the clothes and thoroughly cleansing the same. As the pounder is forced in through the tub or other receptacle, the clothes and water will rise in and fill the lower end of the shell, and thereby compress the air in the upper part of the pounder, while the water will also rise in the space between the said shell and the body.

The air will thus be effectually confined and on the upstroke of the pounder will expand and force the clothes and water from the bottom of the pounder against the clothes in the tub; the water will also be forced through the perforations in the body in a number ofstreams onto the clothes, thereby thoroughly cleansing the same.

It will be observed on reference to Fig. 2 that the inner shell is imperforate and that the space between the said shell and the body is open at both ends. The shell, however, is quite near the body at the lower edge, while its upper edge is at a distance therefrom. The water is thus caused to rise in the shell faster than in the space between the shell and the body, and will overflow into the said space over the upper edge of the shell. On the upstroke of the pounder the water will then escape through the perforations in the body and through the lower end of the space between the body and the shell.

Having thus described my invention,what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s-

1. A clothes-pounder consisting of the circular up wardly-ilared body having perforations near its lower edge and provided with a conical top having a socket for a suitable handle, and a cylindrical imperforate shell secured within the body, substantially as specified.

2. A clothes'pounder comprising the up wardly-flared body having perforations near its lower edge, the imperforate shell, the bolts G, inserted through the lower edges of the shell and the body, and the sleeves H, surrounding the bolts between the shell and the body, as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

DAVID KENNON BREAZEALE.

Vitnesses:

J. E. WIMnERLY, W. F. BROOKS. 

